Dortmund is the easiest team Real Madrid could have possibly drawn from the remaining semifinalist. I'd have preferred to play the first leg at home though, win with a clean sheet and counter them to death in the away fixture.

I think the team is in a much better shape than when the two met in the group stages, Casillas is now on the bench and Essien no longer plays left back, there's still the small problem of the two strikers but I believe 60 minutes of Benzema and 30 minutes of Higuain per match can do the trick.

There are no easy games at this stage, but I'm very confident Real Madrid would be heading to Wembley barring a major surprise.

Funny thing i saw on Unamadridistas' blog, on the way to winning the seventh Real Madrid beat BVB in the semis, on the way to winning the eighth, Real Madrid beat Bayern in the semis and on the way to winning the ninth, Real beat Barca in the semis. If you believe in omens, they don't get better than this, la decima could soon be a reality.